«Enhanced cord blood stem
cell transplants safe in long - term studies.»
«Given the serious threat of graft - versus - host disease, new approaches to make stem
cell transplants safer for patients remain a critical unmet need,» said Dr. Leslie Kean, the trial's principal investigator and associate director of the Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research at Seattle Children's.
Not exact matches
Final results won't be out until 2013, and they will show mainly whether the
cell transplants are
safe.
It was originally developed by the Bavarian government and given to 150,000 German children in the 1970s; it has proved
safe in more recent trials on HIV - positive people and stem -
cell transplant patients.
In people with severe eye disease,
transplants made from embryonic stem
cells (in region of black dotted circle) appear
safe, and became larger and more pigmented over time (right).
Scholl is upbeat that the
transplanted cells still appear
safe and says that analysis of the
cells in the recipients» eyes are «indeed an indication that something is happening.»
They are
safer than
cells transplanted from a donor because risk of rejection is gone.
In the future, researchers will have to determine whether similar
cells are
safe and effective when
transplanted.
In addition to providing an unlimited supply of
cells for implantation, the PEC - Direct approach has the potential to provide other advantages relative to cadaver islet
transplants such as delivering a more consistent product preparation under quality - controlled cGMP conditions, with a more straightforward and
safer mode of delivery.
Dr. Al - Homsi's research holds tremendous promise to curtail negative interactions between host and
transplanted cells and make this form of treatment
safer and more effective.»
In addition to providing an unlimited supply of
cells for implantation, the PEC - Direct approach has other potential advantages relative to cadaver islet
transplants such as delivering a more consistent product preparation under quality - controlled cGMP conditions, and a more straightforward and
safe mode of delivery.
Repopulation of the immune system is carried out via
cell transplants that are by now a
safe and proven application of stem
cell medicine, little different from the many varieties of first generation stem
cell therapy.